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![Fiona Burnell and Ed Tang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Burnell%20Tang.png.webp?itok=KiBcTZyQ)
Burnell appointed to Tang Family Professorship
Professor Fiona Burnell has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Tang Family Professorship.
![School of Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Fellowship and Award Winners for 2024](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/GradGroupPHoto24.jpg.webp?itok=QNnicx4a)
2024 Graduate Awards and Fellowships
There are 21 graduate award and fellowship recipients in the School for 2021.
![Undergraduate Scholarship winners in Tate Hall](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/UndergradGroupPhoto24Crop%20copy.jpg.webp?itok=GwFaaOiI)
2024 Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients
There are 39 recipients and 14 undergraduate scholarships. The winners are as follows.
![Sabrina Savage and Lindsay Glesener at the launch site in Alaska.](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/WFF-2024-021-402%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=P53-3UFy)
Glesener part of NASA's first solar flare observation campaign
Professor Lindsay Glesener, of the School of Physics and Astronomy is part of a research team launching a sounding rocket to study solar flares. The rocket, named Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (
![Alexander McLeod, Nitzan Hirschberg and Alyssa Bragg](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/powertrio.jpg.webp?itok=eYxjfEOn)
Inside Professor McLeod’s Nano-Imaging Laboratory
Professor Alexander McLeod’s nano-imaging lab creates novel ways to study materials as well as looking for new physics in those materials. Nano-spectroscopy is a technique that attaches conventional
![Zhen Liiu smiling man in glasses and a blue polo shirt](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ZhenLiu.png.webp?itok=vK74BYUa)
Liu receives prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers
School of Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Zhen Liu is one of only 126 early-career researchers who will receive a prestigious 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship.